Advantages of using Open Source ERP

Nowadays, businesses must have complete control of their costs and activities if they want to stay as player in the market. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software helps businesses improve margins and competitiveness by automating processes and improving visibility into business operations.

Small/mid sized companies wanting to integrate ERP services always face the hassle of paying a large sum of money for license fees, plus the problem of having limited access to the underlying source code, and therefore becoming dependant to the software vendor.

Open source ERP helps to remove this drawbacks. Companies can download the software programs at free of cost and use them freely, since the source code is accessible. Additionally Open Source ERP provides many different modules and options adapted to specific business needs that have been created thanks to other company’s investments and that are accessible for free.

Here’s a list of some of the main advantages of using Open Source ERP

• Pricing: It is available at free of cost.
• Flexibility: It can be adapted to your company’s needs instead of your company adapting to it.
• Easy Integration with existing systems.
• User Friendly: adopted rapidly by employees.
• Fast Implementation.
• Independence from the vendor as you have access to the source code.
• Coverage of all business areas, easy to customize.
• Quick return of Investment.